Foundations of Informing
Science: 1999-2008
Table of Contents
PART I..... OVERVIEW
Chapter 1 Introduction
to the Foundations of Informing Science
T. Grandon Gill
and Eli Cohen.........................................
1
Chapter
2
Reconceptualizing
Information Systems as a Field of the Discipline Informing Science:
From Ugly
Duckling to Swan
Eli Cohen................................................................................... 7
Chapter
3
Informing
Science
at a Crossroads:
The Role of the Client
T. Grandon
Gill and Anol
Bhattacherje..........................
21
PART
II...
ELEMENTS
OF INFORMING
SCIENCE
Chapter 4 Informing
Systems for Operations: A Teleological View
Zbigniew
J. Gackowski ........................................................
57
Chapter
5
Expanding
the
Concept of Usability
Alex
Koohang .........................................................................
113
Chapter
6
Information
and
Informing Science
Karl T. Knox ...........................................................................
135
Chapter
7
Task
Complexity
and Informing Science: A Synthesis
T. Grandon
Gill and Richard C.
Hicks............................ 159
Chapter
8
Utility
and
Informing
T. Grandon
Gill .....................................................................
197
Chapter
9
Informing
Resonance: Beyond Rigor and Relevance
T. Grandon
Gill.......................................................................
239
PART III PERSPECTIVES
ON INFORMING SCIENCE
Chapter 10 Informing
for Operations: The First Principia
Zbigniew
J. Gackowski ........................................................
287
Chapter
11
Informing
Processes, Risks, Evaluation of the Risk of Misinforming
Dimitar Christozov, Stefanka Chukova
& Plamen Mateev.........................................................................
323
Chapter
12 The
Rugged
Fitness Landscape and Informing Science Research
T. Grandon
Gill .....................................................................
357
Chapter
13 Use
and Redesign
of Informing Systems:
Lessons to Learn
from Philosophizing and Practicing
Hans-Erik Nissen ..................................................................
411
Chapter
14 Inquiry
into
Informing Systems: Critical Systemic Thinking in Practice
Peter M. Bednar and Christine Welch.............................. 459
PART IV.. APPLICATIONS OF INFORMING SYSTEMS
Chapter 15 An
Information System for a Bauxite Mine
J.E.
Everett ...............................................................................
503
Chapter
16 Information
Politics and Information Culture: A Case Study
Bob Travica ..............................................................................
521
Chapter
17 Informing Citizens in a
Highly
Restrictive Environment Using Low-Budget Multimedia Communications: A
Serbian Case
Study
Aleksandar Spasic and
Miloje Nesic ................................ 577
Chapter
18 Cyberdating:
(Dis)information and(Dis)trust in Online Interaction
Xin-An Lu and Hong Wang ..............................................
619
Chapter
19 Web
ACE – A
Study in Reciprocal Informing
Iwona Miliszewska and Grace Tan .................................. 643
Chapter 20 The
Role of
Informing Science in Establishing Research Context:
An Integrated Model of Collaborative Knowledge Building Process
Gurparkash Singh, Louise Hawkins, & Greg Whymark .......................................................................
661
PART
V.... NEW DIRECTIONS FOR INFORMING SCIENCE
RESEARCH
Chapter
21 The
Poverty of
Empiricism
Jens Mende ..............................................................................
709
Chapter
22 Routine
versus
Non-routine Informing: Reflections on What I Have Learned
T. Grandon
Gill .....................................................................
739
Chapter
23 A
Philosophy of
Informing Science
Eli Cohen...................................................................................
767
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